I was 15 when I witnessed honest, heart-crushing grief for the first time. My father is a stoic man. Reserved and kind, but not one to express his deepest feelings regularly. That changed when my grandfather passed away. At that point in my life I had never seen actual death,…

Few producers and sound engineers in extreme music have created as unique and instantly recognizable a sonic brand as Kurt Ballou. The Converge guitarist and founder of GodCity Studio has a reputation behind the board that is equal in stature to his work in front of it, releasing record after…

Quick question: what do blackened hardcore, skramz, grindcore, sludge metal, and harsh noise all have in common? There are two right answers here: first, they’re all fucking great genres. Second, they’re the base of the dangerously heavy new album from Melbourne, Australia natives Diploid, who return with the followup to 2015’s “Is…